mensuration
Americannoun
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the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
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the act or process of measuring.
noun
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the study of the measurement of geometric magnitudes such as length
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the act or process of measuring; measurement
Other Word Forms
- mensurational adjective
- mensurative adjective
Etymology
Origin of mensuration
1565–75; < Late Latin mēnsūrātiōn- (stem of mēnsūrātiō ) a measuring. See measure, -ation
Example Sentences
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Body temperature changes through the menstrual cycle, rising just before ovulation and falling as mensuration begins.
From The Verge • Oct. 26, 2021
His discovery also extended to the volume of the cone, and it was his work that gave the beginning to the science of stereometry, the mensuration part of solid geometry.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
In mensuration, in general, this proposition enters more often than any others, except those on the measuring of the rectangle and triangle.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
Comparative mensuration is a very popular process, and a very comforting process, for all, who have made small progress in self-knowledge; and this category comprehends all, but a very small minority.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
This is a fundamental theorem leading up to the mensuration of the prism.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
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